Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Ukrainian forces struck an oil depot in Krasnodar Krai on August 3.
- Russia is reportedly preparing to expand its use of occupied Ukraine to launch Shahed-type drone strikes against Ukraine.
- Russia appears to be trying to better protect its air bases after multiple years of Ukrainian strikes against the Russian rear.
- Russian intelligence services appear to be reassessing and possibly innovating their sabotage operations in Europe.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lieutenant General Anatoliy Kryvonozhko as the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force on August 3.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in the Lyman, Pokrovsk, and Novopavlivka directions.
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Authors: Christina Harward, Daria Novikov, Olivia Gibson, Jessica Sobieski, Anna Harvey, and Karolina Hird.
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